skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many Walmart employees are not paid a livable wage. Walmart is a major beneficiary of corporate welfare:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor/2014/04/15/report-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/19/walmart-and-mcdonalds-among-...

https://laborcenter.berkeley.edu/a-downward-push-the-impact-...

American tax payers are paying billions to make up the difference and subsidize Walmart's substandard wages.

Walmart privatizes its profits and socializes its costs.
There is a common sentiment I see there that I see regularly repeated in software. Here is my sarcastic take:

I hate measuring things because accuracy is hard. I wish I could just make up my own numbers to make myself feel better.

It is surprising to me how many developers cannot measure things, do so incorrectly, and then look for things to blame for their emotional turmoil.

Here is quick guide to solve for this:

1. Know what you are measuring and what its relevance is to your product. It is never about big or small because numerous small things make big things.

2. Measuring things means generating numbers and comparing those numbers against other numbers from a different but similar measure. The numbers are meaningless is there is no comparison.

3. If precision is important use the high performance tools provided by the browser and Node for measuring things. You can get greater than nanosecond precision and then account for the variance, that plus/minus range, in your results. If you are measuring real world usage and your numbers get smaller, due to performance refactoring, expect variance to increase. It’s ok, I promise.

4. Measure a whole bunch of different shit. The point of measuring things isn’t about speed. It’s about identifying bias. The only way to get faster is to know what’s really happening and just how off base your assumptions are.

5. Never ever trust performance indicators from people lacking objectivity. Expect to have your results challenged and be glad when they are. Rest on the strength of your evidence and ease of reproduction that you provide.
That's also great.
There's no shortage of material in print calling for the destruction of Gaza, the non personhood of Palestinians, etc. from Israel ministers and commentators from before the October attacks by Hamas.

You can, for example, look to the Journal of Genocide Research at articles that draw parallels between Holocaust scholar Eugene's Finkel's declaration of Ukraine as a genocidal event and his point by point justification and similar parallels with Israel and Gaza.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14623528.2024.2...

There's no shortage of evidence of extremists in power on both sides calling for the destruction of the other.
I like that. Have the BMS sign its git commits.

I have been toying with a spec for a BMS that monitors and logs the health of every single battery both on charge and discharge.

What is more exiting, is that Sodium cells are much tougher and can be discharged to zero volts and stored in a discharged state. That also means that they can be shipped discharged and items incorporating them don't degrade while on the shelf or in shipping.
I would argue it’s because the whole economy is basically an oligopoly and there aren’t really enough opportunities for competition. Once a company reaches a certain level, it focuses on pulling up the ladder rather than climbing the ladder.
Emacs has completion preview mode, which shows the completion inline in grey text. This is what I prefer using at it does not block text, and I am only interested in the top completion 99% of the time.
This describes the current situation, but what about if models become self-learning and dynamic both in content (weights) as in structure / architecture? what changes if these digital systems are combined with biological neuronal networks and quantum processors?
It seems too early to rule out a possibility of emergence of consciousness from machines.. beings, yet uncreated..
The 13th Amendment doesn’t change incentives. The existence of amendments proves that the Constitution can evolve.
One thing that I've been looking for in these, and I seem to recall few have this:

Public mode? I'd like people to NOT have to log in.
Its one of those things where once you can buy "kits" for it, you may see its use. Ukraine war videos popularized the idea of using drones to drop explosives.

I could see Cartels using this to take out targets.
I’m quite looking forward to a future where we’ve finally accepted that all this stuff is just part of the domain and shouldn’t be treated like an ugly stepchild, and we’ve merged OLTP and OLAP with great performance for both, and the wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and we’ll all get lots of work done.
> I asked him how he managed to code, and he replied with something that stayed with me: a good programmer should organize software in such a way that every piece of code has a clear and logical place. The organization should be so intuitive that anyone could build a mental model of the structure and navigate it easily, even without seeing it.

I had a similar conversation with a blind classical guitarist before I ever played, which was echoed by my instructor when I started to learn a few years later. Something along the lines of "If you don't know a piece of music to play it with your eyes closed then you haven't practiced it enough for a performance."

I'm not sure I follow the same idea with not utilizing available tooling in software development, but I do believe that most developers would benefit from intentionally going 'back to basics' and limiting their use every so often and shining a light on what you might think you have a solid grasp of but are actually at the limit of your unassisted capabilities.
I didn't mean the upside/downside on your investment, but on the asset. Most investment assets except for bullion can fall to 0. They can also increase without an upper limit, like for example Apple stock. The market being "high" or "low" is not remedied by dollar cost averaging.
Just to maybe save someone a couple of seconds of time: the '-W interactive' bit is a mawk-specific option (-W is for implementation-specific options). Not 100% certain but it looks like the gawk default does something similar so no additional option is needed, I think.
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Color Halftone Hyperzooms by Posy
As a related concept, we've talked about adding "pattern types" to Rust: `Result<T> is Err(_)` (the type of a Result that you've just confirmed is an `Err`, so you don't have to handle the `Ok` case), or `u32 is 1..` (equivalent to `NonZero<u32>` but more flexible).
These are Go AIs.

The MCTS search is itself a chain-of-thought.

Or in the case of KataGo, a dedicated Ladder-solver that serves as the input to the neural network is more than sufficient. IIRC all ladders of liberties 4 or less are solved by the dedicated KataGo solver.

It's not clear why these adversarial examples pop up yet IMO. It's not an issue of search depth or breadth either, it seems like an instinct thing.
How would you know that everyone who felt "betrayed" were also "have the same little compassion towards many millions of others who are not lucky to work on AI in top school and visiting top AI conference"?

This is just blatantly painting high profile individuals with a negative brush because it personally appeals to your fantasies.
The psychological motivation for taking risk.

I don't necessarily call all risky stock activity gambling. At the risk of splitting hairs, it's a little different to buy Tesla stock because of, for the sake of argument, let's say a really bad reason (CEO smart, car go fast), i.e. uninformed, than it is to bet on a number on a roulette wheel.

I think we paint it as gambling because gambling has an aura of naughty judgment about it, as in, "Oh, you're just gambling because you made an uninformed stock purchase." I'd prefer the term speculating or risky stock picking. Gambling, which is banned in many places and is against the law in religious texts, has a taboo because it's addictive. I daresay only a minority of stock trading bros are addicted in that way.
Missed opportunity to call it “privateequityisgoinggreat.com”

https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/
Even if the driving experience is better, the charging infrastructure isn’t there yet. Outside SuperChsrgers, the stations are of inconsistent quality/availability. And if you don’t own a garage/driveway, you don’t get the one big upside - topping up at home.
On the basis of chemistry? that hexavalent chromium is formed via oxidation, and I was throwing out basic ways that are used to increase oxidation rates and decrease energy thresholds needed to attack the chromium oxide layers and oxidize the element.

"Could potentially" means I was brainstorming possibilites, I didn't look for a study, I'm not too worried about it. I'd be more worried about Nickel than Chromium, but
it's obviously false that you "need" welding levels of heat to produce oxidized forms of Chromium.
Yes- I’m already sharing the road with people that DIY repair their cars. I’m an ex pro mechanic, most mechanics shops are in such a hurry they are not doing better work than DIY repairs. Your average hillbilly has been repairing things their whole life and knows what they’re doing.
No didn’t mean anything by that. I was just discussing in the context of dev. I am sure a bigger discussion around everyone is to be had. Marry Christmas!
You are lucky to have small code base or one that you write mostly?

With 6 other devs on the team and 5 apps our team supports there is no way I get code well organized especially when as a senior I have devops stuff to deal with meetings, explaining features to business, checking up support tickets and random stuff happening all the time.

I don’t know the code base and there is no way to keep up.

While I have to dive in and fix shit ASAP or when I get to code review I have to fix some less experienced guy code. Or write part of code when proposing architecture solution, because just telling people “I am right do it my way” does not work until I write piece of code and then they understand.

Language server and ctrl-click is my bread and butter because that is the fastest way while also going slow enough to understand context.
Fan-less cooling solution for laptops up to 40W launched
Sometimes I get so frustrated that I wonder if I'll ever make it big via programming.

Then I go to sleep, wake up, and I finally solve the bug.

Rinse and repeat.
> My takeaway is that the French investigators are pros and the Egyptians are hacks

Describing them as "hacks" is weird. In most dictatorships, the concern is usually "What does the country's leadership want the official story to be" rather than "What actually happened". Take this quote from the article for example

> "In my opinion, the problem with the report is that it appears to treat the findings of the Triple Committee — the group appointed by the public prosecutor’s office — as the unquestioned truth, and fails to push back on any of its assertions, even the ones that they disagreed with. Instead, because the Triple Committee concluded that a bomb in the galley was the cause of the crash, the EAAID bent itself into a pretzel trying to make the evidence fit that theory. Unfortunately, we don’t know why the Triple Committee and the EAAID chose to die on this hill"

EgyptAir is a government owned enterprise. It's managed by the "Ministry of Civil Aviation" who's head is always some general or commander from the Air Force. If the EAAID investigators were allowed to say that there was a "faulty equipment" then a lot of questions would have had to be answered. A lot of questions that have the possibility of embarrassing people all the way up the chain (especially that as mentioned, that particular oxygen mask was reported faulty from another aircraft and removed for maintenance before, and the crew frequently reported that the pilot oxygen supply always decreases on every flight).

Saying "it was terrorists" is something that no one has to feel embarrassed about. In fact in 2016 the Egyptian government were in the midst of a lot of arrests and suspension of most freedoms to "curb terrorist activities". And such thing plays well into that narrative.

Are you an EAAID investigator who wants to say "it was a faulty oxygen mask"? Ok. How do you fancy you, your brother, cousin, and neighbor spending the next 15-30 years in jail pending investigation on conspiracy against the country?
It is true that Magnus usually prefers offbeat lines to get out of the opponent's preparation. However, they're rarely very sharp or otherwise tactically complicated; on the contrary, he excels at slow maneuvering in strategic positions (and, as you say, the endgame).
I think the GPL is a good license, both v2 and v3, for the restrictions they place to promote more FOSS and ensure software users the rights I would hope everyone believes they ought to have (e.g. the 4 freedoms to the software of devices they own via the anti-tivoization clauses).

Having said that, do most licensors use the GPL as opposed to licenses like BSD/MIT? And of those that use the GPL, do they do it for the restrictions it has as opposed to just following a collective habit?

Looking at what I have installed on the computer I'm on, GPL is hanging in there. I see:

$ pacman -Qq | xargs pacman -Qi | grep -Po 'Licenses *: \K.*' | sed -E 's/ +/\n/g' | sed 's/-.*//' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n | awk '$1 > 100'
242 MIT
277 LGPL
348 GPL
381 BSD

However, looking at https://github.blog/open-source/open-source-license-usage-on..., I see:

| 1 | MIT | 44.69% |
| 2 | Other | 15.68% |
| 3 | GPLv2 | 12.96% |
| 4 | Apache | 11.19% |
| 5 | GPLv3 | 8.88% |
| 6 | BSD 3-clause | 4.53% |
| 7 | Unlicense | 1.87% |
| 8 | BSD 2-clause | 1.70% |
| 9 | LGPLv3 | 1.30% |
| 10 | AGPLv3 | 1.05% |
macOS menu bar app that shows how full the ISS urine tank is in real time
It's an interesting piece if you can muster the strength to make it through the irksome writing style. Either way, I don't think your comment adds much. Why not suffer in silence?
Yeah during restore. But is this still compliant with GDPR deletion request when you still physically have access to a copy of user's data?

I mean, sure, it's very theoretical, you can't prove that Meta or Google doesn't delete your data until a leak.
If you can do an undergrad in physics and also hold a conversation, your path is open to getting to the top 0.1% in terms of problem solving ability
That doesn’t really give an objective definition of what wide events are, just an opinion and example in this one persons life.

I had to lookup wide events in the middle of the article, and I can’t say I can viscerally see and feel the benefits the OP was espousing. Just felt like an adderall-fueled dump of information being thrown at me.
If your experience of ticket stubs is different from mine, I have no judgment of you. Follow your bliss. :)
Good points !
Nothing wrong with the E-Axle concept, but why would I buy any EV based on the E-Axle, when I can get the exact same thing buying the BYD vehicle for less.
I want everything, everywhere be always in english by default unless I explicitly set another language or there is no english version at all. Even if it's my native language and I'm in my home country
See https://avherald.com/h?article=4987fb09/0018 for a technical view.
Go Composition does not compose well with Implicit Interfaces
You don't think it's a problem that 99% of social study researchers are left wing?
> everyone who felt "betrayed"

feeling betrayed is my test criteria, since many others are "betrayed" much more, but those individuals focused on their feelings and not on systematic issues in general, hence this makes them "entitled".

> This is just blatantly painting high profile individuals with a negative brush because it personally appeals to your fantasies.

you have to check your language if you want to continue productive discussion.
It may turn out that in the “next epoch,” our stock market will be understood as our civilization's greatest work of art - our greatest cathedral to capitalism.
I think you’re right. I’m no economist, but all non-local companies are extractive in nature - i.e. more money flows to the corporate office (and out of the community) than would happen for a local company (though even local companies send money out to buy stock to sell). It’s easy to see why Amazon is so huge - streams of profit flowing to it from every corner of the country. Not much to do about it except to help small towns produce something of value so an equal amount is flowing back into town.
There's an underlying sentiment through the article that there isn't more significant research to do to further improve ai and generate more revenue. This is a large gap and myopic.

For example, the amount of compute needed to obtain state of the art on a benchmark is only obtainable by big labs. How can we improve the learning efficiency of deep learning so that one can obtain similar performance with 100x less compute.
I'm unable to read minds, so if in your head that self-serving scenario played out such that they were, then they were. Does that justify being uncompassionate towards them by calling them entitled? Is entitled really the best fit for what they were being, rather than say, just plain unreasonable or misguided? Can you read minds that you know they were thinking the world owes them and that's how they developed a passion and completed a college degree?
Automating Keycloak Deployments for Fun and Profit
Which is the whole point: there is no actual, clear, separation between Mullenweg's person, Automattic and the WP Foundation
Both can be done by highschoolers in the transport shop class.
While the article is reasonably complete, it is unbalanced, because it insists much more on the unpleasant personality of William Shockley than on his decisive contributions to the development of the semiconductor industry.

The conclusion of the article is correct that besides his own contributions to the theory of semiconductor devices his second great, even if unintended, achievement was hiring truly the best people, but then annoying them enough so that they have left and founded Fairchild Semiconductor, from where some of them have gone later to create many other of the most important companies of Silicon Valley.

However Shockley has contributed with much more than the invention of the bipolar junction transistor. His invention of the Shockley diode was not very important, because the PNPN switch had already been invented at Bell Labs 3 years earlier, in 1952, by Jewell J. Ebers. The innovation of Shockley was only to notice that a PNPN switch does not need control electrodes to be switched on, because it can be switched on by either the output voltage or by light, therefore it can be made as a diode instead of a tetrode, like previously.

More important has been that Shockley has invented not only the bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in 1948, but also the junction field-effect transistor (JFET) in 1951. For many decades these 2 have been the most important semiconductor devices, until the technology has progressed sufficiently to allow the control of the oxide-silicon interface well enough to allow the fabrication of MOS transistors (which had been invented well before WWII, but nobody knew how to make them).

Even more important is that he has published detailed theories about how the BJTs and the JFETs function, which allowed anyone to design such semiconductor devices.

These theories of the semiconductor transistors conceived by Shockley have been what has really started the semiconductor industry. The previous discovery of the point-contact transistor by Bardeen and Brattain has been more or less accidental and they did not understand how it works. Without the theory of Shockley none of the quick progresses from the years following 1948 would have existed.
Jujutsu Megamerges and jj Absorb
stablecoins, prediction markets, decentralized exchanges and decentralized lending markets have worked pretty well
There is a difference between considering a task a chore i.e a drudgerous task and 2) doing a chore (a mundane task, which may/may not be drudgerous). Same word but different connotations.
Zopa, the UK neobank, snaps up $85M at a $1B+ valuation, eschewing the IPO route
Before mobile phones where a thing, we used to memorize the phone numbers of every family member and friend and co-worker, etc. The numbers we rarely used, we wrote down or looked up in the phone book. When you got a new number, you maybe wrote it down, then after having dialed it a couple of times, it stuck. This didn't really require any effort, it was just the natural way of doing things.

Then came the mobile phone with the ability to store contacts, today I can't even remember my wife's number.

I have coded for more than 40 years and I hate autocomplete, language servers, etc. I don't use any of it because I have found (after having tried to use it all) that, just like with phone numbers, you don't remember much if you use all of that and you have to make a real effort, but things just don't stick the same way. But if don't use any of that, you only have to look things up in the beginning, then occasionally, then rarely or never again and more things just stick, you get faster in a natural way and you understand your code better. You also think deeper about how to structure your code and how to organize everything.

If you always use a crutch to help you walk, you will never walk by yourself. The crutch will look like it is helping you, but that's only in the beginning, eventually it will hinder you and hold you back.

That's my 2 cents.
> The goal of programming is not to write code (however much I enjoy that part), it is to solve problems.

Right, which is exactly why autocomplete is not a huge help.
I think there is some money to be made in machine learning too.
Of course it is, it's a brutal military dictatorship where the last (and only) democratically elected leader was overthrown by the army and died in prison.

Those kinds of systems, where people are convinced their opinions and convictions don't matter, lead to problems like this
I hate ladder systems. Winning is fun and losing is not. Why would I purposely choose to play a game/system where your win rate does not meaningfully improve as you skill up?

That sounds frustrating and tedious. If I get better I want to win more often.
The new getting started guide is great. Chris Oliver is a great teacher. Afterwards, if you want a 102-style tutorial, I'm a big fan of https://www.hotrails.dev/. It goes step by step and explains how Hotwire works and how to use it.
Wrong capitalization makes me feel really axious and frustrated.
Canva incident API Gateway outage
Thoughts on stuff like ClickHouse with JSON column support? Less upfront knowledge of columns needed.
As we're a tech site, the plural is clearly Juliuxen.
Every priority is for the innocent.

These thought experiments are out of touch.

The whole point of law is to protect the innocent.

Punishing the innocent is a crime.
She's one of the best, extremely thorough, and works as a researcher for another very good air crash investigator, Mentour Pilot (YouTube channel).
which one, I searched and found several iterations that are supposedly "new"
"just a tool" is always the excuse for allowing a crutch to make you weak and directionless.

If it's really "just a tool", why so defensive?

Sorry. I know I'm a dick. But come on man, don't pretend the effects of crutches doesn't exist. It's silly to try to deny something so obviously observable all day every day, in all possible contexts not just coding.